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The Baseball Hall of Fame welcomes the Class of 2026 this weekend in Cooperstown, a three-player group considered among the best of their generation.
Center fielders Andruw Jones and Carlos Beltrán , and second baseman Jeff Kent will be immortalized, three stars who took dramatically different paths to this moment.
Beltrán had to wait until his fourth year on the ballot, some form of punishment for his presence in the Astros’ 2017 cheating scandal. Jones, arguably the greatest defensive center fielder of all time, saw his support rise all the way from 7.3% to induction-worthy in his ninth appearance.
Kent, who redefined the keystone, got in through the veterans committees just a few years after his time on the official ballot came to an end.
“I had painted a picture that I accepted, which was that it's probably just not going to happen,’’ Kent said. “I'm OK with it. You know, it's…
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